This book was written by Alan S. Gutterman, who is the principal of Gutterman Law & Business, a leading provider of timely and practical legal and business advice for legal and financial professionals, executives, entrepreneurs, investors and policymakers in the form of publications, online content, programs, training and consulting services. Alan has established himself as one of the top-selling individual authors in the global legal publishing marketplace, producing a substantial body of work that continues to inform legal and business practice. In addition, Alan is an accomplished independent scholar-practitioner. Drawing from over four decades of experience in counseling small and large businesses and other organizations and serving in senior management positions with several technology-based businesses, he has authored or edited an extensive portfolio of published works spanning organizations, management, leadership, entrepreneurship, business law and transactions, international business, sustainability, impact investment, business and human rights, corporate social responsibility, ageism and ableism. As a trusted counselor to organizations and skilled scholar, Alan's work reflects a deep well of knowledge and appliable wisdom and has been supported and distributed by numerous commercial publishers and is also available through academic social networks (his scholarship has ranked among the Top 100 authors in both the business and law categories on SSRN, earned Top Scholar recognition from ScholarGPS, attracted a broad global readership that placed him among the top 1% of the scholars and other contributors on ResearchGate, and is also indexed on Google Scholar). He has also achieved best-selling status in several Amazon Kindle categories. He has been an adjunct faculty member at several colleges and universities, teaching classes on corporate finance, venture capital, corporate governance, Japanese business law and law and economic development. He received his A.B., M.B.A. and J.D. from the University of California at Berkeley, a D.B.A. from Golden Gate University, and a Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge, and he has also been designated as a Credentialed Professional Gerontologist (CPG) and admitted as a member of the National Coalition of Independent Scholars.